Larry Pinkney was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article entitled Fiery Black Meeting at Poly High published on Friday, December 20, 1968, Page 2
Excerpt from the article:
Fiery Black Meeting at Poly High
Some 150 Polytechnic High School students heard a series of fiery demands for greater militancy last night by a panel of black college students.
The students, bundled in their coats in an unheated music room, heard the exhortations voiced by the chairmen of Black Students Union Chapters at 14 Bay Area Colleges.
White newsmen where asked to leave the meeting not long after it began. It was sponsored by the Educational Clearing House, an arm of the Federally financed Plan of Action for Challenging Times.
The black high school students were asked to attend college–more to aid in what one speaker called the struggle to free the undergraduate than to absorb what the white culture considers a higher education.
‘BUSINESS’
“Bootlickers and Uncle Toms and traitors, you’re not welcome there.” said Benny Stewart of the BSU at San Francisco State. “But if you want to come and take care of business, we want you.”
He dismissed those black college graduates who earn a degree–and then are unable to communicate with their own community–as abstract intellectuals.
Larry Pinkney of the BSU at City College of San Francisco explained how his organization finally persuaded college officials there to create a library section of African history.
“We got damned tired of going in and out, back and forth, up to the man’s office. So ten of us went and said we want an Afro section in the library now.” he said.
“We said we don’t want to verbalize. We don’t want to dialogue, we want it now.” Pinkney recalled. “and you know what? We got it.”…
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For more information see Larry Pinkney’s article, The San Francisco State Strike: Students at City College of San Francisco, and the Impact of the Black Panther Party
Larry Pinkney is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his political organizing activities, Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and more recently on the nationally syndicated Alex Jones Show. Pinkney is a former university instructor of political science and international relations, and his writings have been published in various places, including The Boston Globe, San Francisco BayView newspaper, Black Commentator, Intrepid Report, Global Research (Canada), LINKE ZEITUNG (Germany), 107 Cowgate (Ireland and Scotland), and Mayihlome News (Azania/South Africa). He is in the archives of Dr. Huey P. Newton (Stanford University, CA), cofounder of the Black Panther Party. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.)
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